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2010
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
Jülich
ISBN: 978-3-89336-606-4
Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/3697
Abstract: Over the last 10 years the proceedings of the biennial NIC-Symposia have given a fascinating account of supercomputer based research at its best. At the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) computing time has always been granted according to peer reviews of the project proposals, provided by an internationally composed peer review board. A second peer review of the project results obtained in a two years period leads to the selection presented in the proceedings. This well tried procedure has been adopted by the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), an alliance of the three German national supercomputing centres in Jülich, Garching and Stuttgart. By coordinating their interests, the GCS was able to acquire the first European computer with a peak performance exceeding 1 PetaFlop/s. It was installed by the Jülich Supercomputer Centre JSC in 2009 and dubbed JUGENE (an allusion to Jülich IBM Blue Gene/P). As a consequence, the NIC peer review board at its fall meeting in 2009 was expanded by delegates from the GCS-institutions, and decided about computing time allocation on the GCS-computer JUGENE as well as on the NIC-computer JUROPA (replacement for JUMP). These machines hold rank 4 respectively rank 13 on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful computers. The expanded peer review board selected projects with particular demands of compute power as Gauss projects. This large-scale project status has been given to projects by Jansen and Peters, presented in this volume, and on the recent meeting to Fodor, Schierholz, Katz and Harting. The formation of an internationally competitive European supercomputing infrastructure is the goal of the European consortium PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), the German member of which is the GCS. In this context new modes of computing time allocation on the European level are at the horizon. Hopefully the peer review procedure of the NIC will serve as a model there, too. Only the quality of a research proposal should matter, and the research communities should compete freely among each other with their demands for computing power rather than being regulated by quota. [...]
Keyword(s): scientific computing ; computational biophysics ; computational physics ; computational mathematics ; computer calculation ; hydrodynamics ; soft matter ; turbulence ; astrophysics ; high performance computing ; supercomputer
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